3,600-year-old bronze dagger discovered in mysterious shipwreck
Archaeologists found a bronze dagger with a unique silver stud in a 3,600-year-old shipwreck, revealing many secrets of the Crete-Minoan civilization.
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•20/08/2025
At their peak around 3,600 years ago, the Cretan-Minoans established themselves as a powerful maritime force in the eastern Mediterranean, fostering extensive trade networks. These maritime trade routes connected the Cretan-Minoans with Egypt, the Levant (modern-day Syria, Lebanon and Israel), Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), Cyprus and mainland Greece. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Renowned for their seafaring skills, the Cretan-Minoans facilitated a vast exchange of goods, making Crete an important center of ancient trade. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
Crete-Minoan trade included a wide range of goods, primarily metals. Copper, essential for bronze production, was imported mainly from Cyprus, while tin came from as far away as modern-day Afghanistan or Cornwall in England. The Crete-Minoans exported not only raw metals but also tools, weapons, and wrought bronze artifacts across the Mediterranean. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology. And while excavating a 3,600-year-old Crete-Minoan shipwreck off the Mediterranean coast of Kumluca, Türkiye, experts from the Kemer Underwater Archaeology Museum unexpectedly found a strange object. Photo: @Kemer Underwater Archaeology Museum.
It is a Cretan-Minoan bronze dagger. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology. This bronze dagger also has unique silver rivets. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Modern archaeological survey and exploration techniques, including sonar scanning, have shown that the copper in this dagger originated from copper mines in Cyprus. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
Research into this remarkable shipwreck is expected to continue in depth over the next five years. Photo: @Kemer Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Dear Readers, please watch the video : "Opening" the 3,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian Pharaoh: "Shocking" real appearance and earth-shattering secrets. Video source: @VGT TV - Life.
Báo Khoa học và Đời sống•20/08/2025
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